Filming and Breaking voices

Dai Evans dwe199 at soton.ac.uk
Tue Feb 20 19:19:40 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 12689

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., rcraigharman at h... wrote:
> The problem with breaking voices is one of film continuity.  Film
> shoots are often done out of order.  If the last shots in the film
> feature a high-voiced Harry or Ron and the first shots show them
> with deeper voices, it's going to seem really odd.  Worse still if
> they are all mixed up.

I don't see this as a problem. A teenage boys voice will jump about 
octaves at random while his voice is breaking. Out of sequence 
shooting should therefore not affect technical accuracy.

Just remeber the teen from the Simsons who works at the Krusty Burger 
drive through...


Dai





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